Overview
- Macomb County jurors found Al Curtis Williams guilty of first-degree murder, carrying a concealed weapon, and felony firearm after four days of testimony, with the murder count carrying a potential life-without-parole sentence.
- Authorities said Williams and Brandon Zaner argued inside a Warren Shell station, after which Williams returned, struck Zaner with a handgun, and fired a shot that hit him in the chest.
- Zaner, 38, a father of two from Utica, had stepped over from his job at Brayz Hamburgers to get coffee when the confrontation occurred.
- Williams was arrested at a nearby hotel within hours of the shooting and remains held at the Macomb County Jail.
- Sentencing is scheduled for March, and the prosecutor called the killing senseless and said the verdict sends a clear deterrent message.